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In the era of fast 3d printers, what stands in the way of just fashioning a suitable fake finger from the fingerprint?
by curt15 11y ago
In the era of fast 3d printers, what stands in the way of just fashioning a suitable fake finger from the fingerprint?
- msbarnett 11y agoNothing. The 3d printer is overkill. A fingerprint and a pack of gelatin is more than sufficient.
- r00fus 11y agoHave you personally done or seen this done this then? Quality of the print production seems pretty important...
- hengheng 11y agoLaser printers are perfectly fine. CCC demoed this a few years back: https://youtu.be/aGjGzqYgz0c https://youtu.be/aGjGzqYgz0c
- berdario 11y agohttps://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2013/ccc-breaks-apple-touchid https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2013/ccc-breaks-apple-touchid http://www.heise.de/video/artikel/iPhone-5s-Touch-ID-hack-in-detail-1966044.html http://www.heise.de/video/artikel/iPhone-5s-Touch-ID-hack-in...
- stcredzero 11y agoMythbusters did it.
- r00fus 11y agoNot on an iPhone.
- mikestew 11y agoYou might have noticed that ABS plastic doesn't have a lot of similarities with human flesh. That's not to say that it can't be faked, just maybe not with a 3D printer: http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/09/fake-fingerprint-fools-iphone-6-touch-id-why-its-not-so-serious/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/09/fake-fingerprint-foo...